That Tamil Nadu has bagged the
Krishi Karman Award for 2013-2014 from the Central
Government for increased food production is not news
anymore. But what is, is the technological, varietal
interventions from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU)
and the support it gave to the Agriculture Department to
increase the cultivable area under pulses and yield in the
State.

Deoghar (Jharkhand): She is
exuberant, ambitious and likes to talk. Women look up to her
because she has broken the stereotype of the male dominance
in farming. It was only a year ago, that Sulochana Devi was
facing ire of the men in her family because she took up a
non-conventional method of sowing rice in their
one-and-a-half acre family farm in Baarwan village in
Jharkhand.

JOURNAL UPDATE

Mechanical weed control by cono
weeder in SRI method of paddy cultivationAuthor(s): S.S.
Karhale, S.P. Lambe and P.S. Neharkar, International Journal
of Advance Research in Science and Engineering, Vol No. 4,
Special Issue (02) | February 2015